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In 1949, the African-American painters Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff covered the lobby walls at a Los Angeles insurance company headquarters - a trapezoidal Moderne building designed by the African-American architect Paul Williams - with murals of...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is planning to buy and remove murals by the African-American painters Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff that now cover the lobby walls of a building in Los Angeles, over the...

March 17, 2011, Thursday

WHEN the Studio Museum in Harlem introduced a group of young African-American artists in the show called ''Freestyle'' a few years ago, the curator, Thelma Golden, called them post-black artists, and caused a ruckus. She was describing artists who...

Transit officials knew that the bus driver involved in a fatal crash on Fifth Avenue last year had a long history of seizures and alcoholism but failed to take him off the road, in violation of state law, a state panel has concluded. The driver,...

THIS hardly qualifies as a world-shaking brainstorm, but it is startling sometimes to see how leaden bureaucracy, coupled perhaps with America's passion for lawsuits, can get in the way of human instincts for decent behavior. The thought arises in...

The bus driver involved in a fatal runaway crash on Fifth Avenue, who died on Wednesday, had been given a tentative diagnosis of epilepsy after the crash and was put on medication to control epileptic seizures, his neurologist said yesterday. The...

The driver of a city bus that careered down Fifth Avenue on Oct. 2, killing a messenger and critically injuring a bicyclist, died in his home in the Bronx last night, the police said. Ellen Borakove, a spokesman for the City Medical Examiner,...

October 23, 1997, Thursday

The driver of a city bus that raced out of control on Fifth Avenue earlier this month, killing one man and critically injuring another, was released from the hospital on Saturday, officials said. The driver, Charles Alston, underwent more than a...

October 13, 1997, Monday

A neurologist said yesterday that the driver of the runaway city bus that killed a messenger and injured a bicyclist on Fifth Avenue last week experienced ''events consistent with seizures'' during the crash and probably not a heart attack. The...